Workshop

Lactofermentation as Lifeforce

with Sean Roy Parker

30 Jul 2026

What forms of community emerge when we treat microscopic life as a co-author of our shared future?

Join artist, writer and fermentation enthusiast Sean Roy Parker for a hands-on workshop looking at traditional preservation methods using local produce, thinking about our relationship with wild microbes, and exploring poetry as a form of communal digestion. Who are the invisible workers and what are they doing? How wide and deep can we expand our sensory vocabulary?

Tickets

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Lactofermentation as a Lifeforce - Workshop by Sean Roy Parker, July 2026

What will you do

This session is for keen fermenters, cooks or gardeners who want to deepen their knowledge of the non-human agents helping keep us alive. You will transform locally grown fruits and vegetables into delicious, probiotic snacks like sauerkraut, fermented salsa and cheong, with basic ingredients and equipment you can find at home. Throughout the session, Roy will share poems from his debut collection 'stewarding' and guide you through writing a collaborative text on interspecies intimacy, thinking about the bodily sensations of eating together and lifecycles of edible plants.

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Lactofermentation as Lifeforce - Workshop by Sean Roy Parker, July 2026 Photo credits: Sean Roy Parker

What to bring

  • Clean jars
  • Apron
All other materials provided.
**Food handling skills are desired but not essential, and you are invited to bring a dish or ferment for potluck.

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Sean Roy Parker - photo - Photographed by: Will Hearle at Omved Gardens

Sean Roy Parker

Sean Roy Parker is an artist and food researcher living between Derbyshire UK and Vilnius LT.  Through spending deep time connecting with (beyond)human beings through various strands of slow primary research —wild food, walking, eating, fermentation, composting, writing— Roy non-judgementally observes interwoven ecologies resisting capitalcentric frameworks and immerses himself in the undergrowth alliance. Between 2021-24 Roy was living and working from The Field, an artist-run housing project set in a former Steiner School in Derbyshire, finding (dis)harmony in domestic community and researching food as cultural infrastructure that supports artistic production.

Information

30th of July
18:00 - 20:30
Location: Mediamatic Panorama Room

Tickets

Full price €35 | Discount price €25

We give a discount to students, stadspas and artists. If this applies to you we might ask to see your kvk nr/portfolio or student card for this option.

The workshop will take place in a group of 12 people. Registration will be possible in advance or on the day itself via the ticket link.

Please note that this workshop will be held in English.
For questions, please send an email to workshop@mediamatic.nl.

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